Job 22:28
Good News Translation
You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path.

New Revised Standard Version
You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

Contemporary English Version
He will do whatever you ask, and life will be bright.

New American Bible
What you decide shall succeed for you, and upon your ways light shall shine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

decree

Psalm 20:4 May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels.

Psalm 90:17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Lamentations 3:37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Matthew 21:22 And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.

James 4:15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.

the light

Job 29:3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

Psalm 97:11 Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

Psalm 112:4 To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.

Proverbs 4:18 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Isaiah 30:21 And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows. 28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.29For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.…
Cross References
Job 11:17
And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Job 33:28
He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

Psalm 97:11
Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

Psalm 112:4
To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.

Job 22:27
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